5th YEAR AT CORAZÓN DE JESÚS INSTITUTE

MERRY CHRISTMASS

2010-12-02T18:32:00.008-03:00

Wishing you a very joyous Christmas

A time filled with warmth and love.

And may your New Year be one that is bright and sparkling.

Graphs.

2010-11-30T20:55:00.005-03:00

The students of second year did these graphics about different habits of fifth year. The first graph shows that we, 5th year, have an average of 9 - 10 hours of sleep. Most of us sleep between 10 and 12 pm daily.

The second graph show the eating habits of the school. They have a healthy diet, they eat red meat, dairy foods and vegetables.These foods are essential for human development

Consumption of fish and white meats are below the normal range, they should eat more fish and white meats to have more phosphorus and zinc.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SUCCESS!

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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO DARE.

Graphs -

2010-11-29T21:12:00.008-03:00

These graphs belongs to the work that students of second year in computer science and mathematics subjects, now we are going to analyze:

In the first graph we can see how many hours that girls use the computer. The total is seventy-seven. Twelve students use the computer for one to two hours; twenty-one use of two to three hours, twelve of three to four hours and more than four hours, twenty students. Many people really give much importance to the computer, the students spend much time on the computer and doesn't make other activities.

In the second graph we can see the hours students that watch television. People who were survey are sixty-seven. 41% of people watching television between one and two hours, the 33% only see two to three hours, the 22% of three to four hours and 4% more than four hours by day . We don't watch much television by day.

By Aguilera, Alvarez Nani, Ferreyra & Villán

Graphs.

2010-11-29T20:38:00.010-03:00

The first graph contains the information of the quantity of hours that the pupils uses to study.
- Seventeen per cent does not use hours to study
- Fifty nine per cent uses from one to two hours to study
- Thirty two per cent uses from two to three hours to study
- Eight per cent uses from three to four hours to study
- Only one per cent uses more of four hours to study.

SECOND GRAPH

- Thirty five per cent is for-sighted as for his studies
- Sixty five per cent studies to last moment

THIRD GRAPH

- Twenty-six per cent, out of the school area studies languages
- Six per cent, he studies music
- Six remaining per cent, has other studies
- Ninety nine per cent, does not do anything

FOURTH GRAPH

- Forty nine per cent, it is from Balvanera
- Eighteen per cent, it belongs to Saint Nicholas
- Two per cent, it is from San Cristóbal
- Other neighborhoods: thirty one per cent

FIFTH GRAPH

- Fourteen per cent lives in a house
- Eighty six per cent lives in a department

Yamila Deamigo, Victoria Rojas, Priscila Puerta, Josué Ghiso

Graphs Of Second year.

2010-11-29T20:26:00.003-03:00

They had to do Surveys in the secondary school to every year, from first year to fifth year. In the surveys they wrote questions referred to their way of life, healthy habits and personal hygiene. There were also questions about how much technology they used or communication means and activities of recreation. They asked about habits of study, zone of residence and questions of general interest.

Luis, Alan, Gonzalo y Nicolas

St. Cecilia´s College

2010-11-24T23:09:00.003-03:00

This video shows a play for the children of St. Cecilia´s College.
Those Children are blind, due to their problem, we work with senses.

Interview

2010-11-06T12:55:00.003-03:00

By: Alvarez, Buceta, Fidalgo, Orosco and Benitez, Chang, Martinez, Tejada.

Interview -

2010-11-04T21:05:00.002-03:00

By Aguilera, Alvarez N., Ferreyra, Villán, Palacios,Altamirano, Calizaya y Segovia

2010-11-03T23:11:00.003-03:00

María Victoria Rojas, Yamila De amigo, Josué Ghiso, Priscila Puerta, Judit Fernández, Camila Ferreyra, Florencia Blanco y Rodrigo Gomez.

2010-11-03T22:53:00.002-03:00

María Victoria Rojas, Josué Ghiso, Yamila De amigo, Priscila Puerta, Camila Ferreyra, Judit Fernández, Florencia Blanco y Rodrigo Gomez.

Personality transplant

2010-10-31T19:51:00.000-03:00

Listen to the article and decide if these statements are true or false

a.	Doctors have found a way to transplant people’s personalities.	T / F
b.	A professor said people wouldn’t mind receiving the heart of a killer.	T / F
c.	People who receive new organs say they share the donor’s memories.	T / F
d.	Most donor patients believe they have some of the donor’s personality.	T / F
e.	The professor said very few people are superstitious about transplants.	T / F
f.	The professor said the most logical people are the most superstitious.	T / F
g.	A British teenager received a new heart even though she didn’t want it.	T / F
h.	Scientists have evidence that personality accompanies donated organs.	T / F

Would you be willing to donate your organs after you die?
Do you carry an organ donor card?
Do you think parts of a donor’s personality is transplanted along with the organ?
Would you accept a killer’s heart if you needed a heart transplant?
What do you think of giving someone a transplant against their will?
Would you like a personality transplant?

Let's talk

2010-10-30T13:19:00.002-03:00

What do you think of when you see these images?
How would you like to live in such a house?
Have you ever seen a bat? How would you react if you saw one?
What's your opinion about ghosts? Do they exist. . .?
What about witches?

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES TYPE 2

2010-09-17T13:57:00.001-03:00

Watch this video about conditional sentences. Once you've finished, answer the questions at the bottom of the post.

What would you do if you had more time?
Where would you go if you could travel without difficulties?
Which famous person would you like to meet if you could and why?
What would you buy if you had more money?
What would you do if a teacher gave a low grade for a work you consider good?

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES TYPE 1

2010-09-17T13:41:00.002-03:00

The first conditional (also called conditional type 1) is a structure used for talking about possibilities in the present or in the future.

This page will explain how the first conditional is formed, and when to use it. You will also find some exercises

* http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/StudyZone/330/grammar/1cond.htm

Environment

2010-09-11T00:00:00.004-03:00

Water Pollution

Comprising over 70% of the Earth surface, water is undoubtedly the most precious natural resource that exists on our planet. Without the seemingly invaluable compound comprised of hydrogen and oxygen, life on Earth would be non-existent: it is essential for everything on our planet to grow and prosper. Although we as humans recognize this fact, we disregard it by polluting our rivers, lakes, and oceans. Subsequently, we are slowly but surely harming our planet to the point where organisms
are dying at a very alarming rate. In addition to innocent organisms dying off, our drinking water has become greatly affected as is our ability to use water for recreational purposes. In order to combat water pollution, we must understand the problems and become part of the solution.

Many causes of pollution including sewage and fertilizers contain nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates. In excess levels, nutrients over stimulate the growth of aquatic plants and algae. Excessive growth of these types of organisms consequently clogs our waterways, use up dissolved oxygen as they decompose, and block light to deeper waters.
This, in turn, proves very harmful to aquatic organisms as it affects the respiration ability or fish and other invertebrates that reside in water.
Pollution is also caused when silt and other suspended solids, such as soil, wash off plowed fields, construction and logging sites, urban areas, and eroded river banks when it rains. Under natural conditions, lakes, rivers, and other water bodies undergo Eutrophication, an aging process that slowly fills in the water body with sediment and organic matter. When these sediments enter various bodies of water, fish respiration becomes impaired, plant productivity and water depth become reduced, and aquatic organisms and their environments become suffocated. Pollution in the form of organic
material enters waterways in many different forms as sewage, as leaves and grass clippings, or as runoff from livestock feedlots and pastures. When natural bacteria and protozoan in the water break down this organic material, they begin to use up the oxygen dissolved in the water. Many types of fish and bottom-dwelling animals cannot survive when levels of dissolved oxygen drop below two to five parts per million. When this occurs, it kills aquatic organisms in large numbers which leads to disruptions in the food chain.

Pollution of the air

In the big cities as good airs, the air becomes unbeatable for the smokes of the factories, heatings, public transport, particular cars, motorcycles, groups and trucks that spit black smoke from his pipes of leak. The smoke is a set of particles of fuel that it does not stop carbonizing. This problem supported by all and almost without control, it us proves that this alteration of the environment turns out to be unfavorable for the natural environment and is a direct or indirect consequence of the activity of the human. Nowdays the levels of pollution of the air in the city of Buenos Aires, are very high, a product of the particles in suspecion like: Hollin, polvo, aerosol, gases, steams, smokes and smelly substances. All the human beings we depend of the environment because of it is so important to assume our responsibility without stopping admitting that an important obstacle resides in the financing source of the environmental programs. It is indispensable that the economic systems incorporate the environmental cost, since all the natural resources are goods of the public domain and I spoil and his pollutions commit an outrage against and common, right good dedicate in the constitution

Effects of the pollution

The effect of greenhouse, the destruction of the cap of ozone and the acid rain, between others. Cars, trucks, groups, heatings and many other elements more, they dismiss gas infinity that they contaminate the atmosphere. When the carbonic anhydride (Co) is accumulating slowly in the atmosphere it provokes the effect of screen that prevents that the heat escapes to the space, with what the atmospheric temperature increases. The aerosols and other pollutant products affect the cap of ozone that surrounds our atmosphere, which protects us from the dangerous radiations proceeding from the space. Diseases like the cancer and up to l alteration of our genes they are the serious risks to which we are exposed.

The origin of the acid rain is the water steam that reacts with the pollutant particles and gives place to acids and oxides therefore the water that falls down is acid and corrodes the metals, destroys the stone and the cement of the buildings and kills the plants.

The acid rain and other forms of pollution are not accidents, but the result of a form of life and are not easy to resolve. The consequences of the air pollution for the health they are immense. According to the organization mundial for the health of between 85 % to 95 % of all the diseases of the respiratory tracts they have toher.

In order that between all we could do something in order that this air little clean more, we give you the serious one of recommendations:

If your, your family or your friends of study damaging the environment directly or indirectly, make first your style of life and after it tries to persuade them in order that they do the same thing

The contribution more big to the global warming comes from the fossil fuels.

Reflection end

It is necessary to provoke a cultural deep change in the population with regard to his conviviality with the noises, exiling the historical habit of associating noise and power that so much I damage does us. The performance of each one of us depends of our neighbors with regard to the noises. The result sera an improvement in the relation between the persons conflicts were avoided, suffering unnecessary human beings, and you prop, it was increasing the efficiency and aptitude to complete of the persons and the city in his set.

Clearly, the problems associated with water pollution have the capabilities to disrupt life on our planet to a great extent. Congress has passed laws to try to combat water pollution thus acknowledging the fact that water pollution is, indeed, a serious issue. But the government alone cannot solve the entire problem. It is ultimately up to us, to be informed, responsible and involved when it comes to the problems we face with our water. We must become familiar with our local water resources and learn about ways for disposing harmful household wastes so they don’t end up in sewage treatment plants that can’t handle them or landfills not designed to receive hazardous materials. In our yards, we must determine whether additional nutrients are needed before fertilizers are applied, and look for alternatives where fertilizers might run off into surface waters. We have to preserve existing trees and plant new trees and shrubs to help prevent soil erosion and promote infiltration of water into the soil. Around our houses, we must keep litter, pet waste, leaves, and grass clippings out of gutters and storm drains. These are
just a few of the many ways in which we, as humans, have the ability to combat water pollution. As we head into the 21st century, awareness and education will most assuredly continue to be the two most important ways to prevent water pollution. If these measures are not taken and water pollution continues, life on earth will suffer severely.
Global environmental collapse is not inevitable. But the developed world must work with the developing world to ensure that new industrialized economies do not add to the world's environmental problems. Politicians must think of sustainable development rather than economic expansion. Conservation strategies have to become more widely accepted, and people must learn that energy use can be dramatically diminished without sacrificing comfort. In short, with the technology that currently exists, the years of global environmental mistreatment can begin to be reversed.

Many causes of pollution including sewage and fertilizers contain nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates
Pollution is also caused when silt and other suspended solids, such as soil, washoff plowed fields, construction and logging sites, urban areas, and eroded river banks when it rains.
Comprising over 70% of the Earth surface, water is undoubtedly the most precious natural resource that exists on our planet.
Global environmental collapse is not inevitable. But the developed world must work with the developing world to ensure that new industrialized economies do not add to the world's environmental problems.
Without the seemingly invaluable compound comprised of hydrogen and oxygen, life on Earth would be non-existent: it is essential for everything on our planet to grow and prosper.

2010-09-10T22:10:00.003-03:00

By; Aguilera, Alvarez N, Ferreyra and Villán

2010-09-10T19:19:00.000-03:00

How to care for the world

Preserving our Earth is something that takes everyone working together to see results and make the change successful. Working to save the environment can happen in the home, at work or in between. You may not know which way is best to start, so choosing to start at home should be your top priority. Starting at home can save you money as well as preserve the earth.

Because there are so many different ways to preserve the earth and take care of the environment we don't need the modern technology that is available today but we want it, not realizing the long term affect that our wants have on the earth.

Tips

# Turn the water off while you brush your teeth
# Turn the lights off when you leave the room
# Put cans, paper products and plastic containers in the recycling bin instead of the trash # Learn to recycle other materials such as newspapers, magazines, clothing and more.
# Don't stand with the refrigerator door open to look at what is available
# Dress warmer so the heat can stay at a minimum during the day and evening

The pollution

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The pollution

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The Pollution

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2010-09-09T21:31:00.000-03:00

In the next blog we want to explain the contamination of our environment.

can be observed, two videos, which explains the pollution we create and do not give importance
and on the other side you can see pictures of factories expelling chemicals.
because of this, pollution has increased rapidly. today there are ways to avoid the high pollution,and simply ignored.
but, early or afternoon affect us in the future in the summers very hotter and winters very colder.

Facebook

2010-08-25T19:44:00.001-03:00

Do you feel like having some fun? Being so, watch the following video, but first answer these questions.

Do you have an account in Facebook?

If you do have one:

How often do you log in?
Do you need to visit it everyday?
How addictive do you think it is?
What kind of information do you publish?

If you don't:

Is there a particular reason why you haven't opened one?

For everybody:

How dangerous do you think it is?
Why do people like uploading personal photos and information to these kind of sites?

What's this ironic song trying to tell us?

NOW, WATCH IT:

If you feel like singing along, here's the lyrics:

I wouldn’t call myself a social butterfly
and there’s not much that separates me from the other guy
but when I login I begin to live

There’s an online world where I am king
of a little website dedicated to me
with pictures of me and a list of my friends
and an unofficial record of the groups that I’m in.

Before the internet friendship was so tough
you actually had to be in peoples presence and stuff
who would’ve thought that with a point and a click
I could know that Hope Floats is your favorite flick (harry connick jr. ?)

Facebook (Facebook)
I’m Hooked on Facebook
I used to meet girls hanging out at the mall, now I just wait for them to write on my wall.
(its more than a want, its more than a need; I’d schrivel up and die without my minifeed)
Take a look. (You’re Hooked) on facebook.

oh Link's status changed. it says hes playing the recorder....

how do you know this person?
did you hook up with this person?
do you need to request confirmation?
or did you just think they looked cute..from their picture on facebook?

if the internet crashed all across the land
or my facebook account was deleted by the man
I’d carry around a picture of my face
and a summary of me typed out on a page

Speak

2010-08-16T14:09:00.004-03:00

Sometimes you feel you don't know how you should say it, how to pronounce it properly...I wish I had such a tool when I was a student !!

Then start listening and RECORD your own voice. The program will give you points and it will remember and register your advances ...

YOUR TASK: Visit the page, choose a video and after watching it, record yourself. Once you've finished, tell us about your experience.

(Activity from Susana del Valle's blog)

Joachina of Vedruna.

2010-08-14T11:35:00.008-03:00

This video shows the life of Joachina of Vedruna. I think that she was an amazing person who did a lot of good things. At present we continue with her mission.

Some 4th year students of our school interviwed sister Elisa about Joachina´s life.

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=B6JAKFYE

MAKING POSTERS ON-LINE

2010-08-12T14:37:00.000-03:00

This is a poster greeting some students on 21st September, "Students Day".

By placing the cursor on "Glogster" you will see the option to view it "full size".

Hope you enjoy it!

Alan Maldonado

2010-08-11T23:54:00.003-03:00

Hi my name is Alan G. Maldonado I am 17 years Old, I was born 21 of dicember in 1992, my friend usually call me Amayan. I've lived In Buenos Aires Since Is was a Child. I love Tennis, I was a Good player but now I do another sport. Im a serius person I like study I think that I am a good studen an a great friend. Im tall whit black hair and brown eyes. I will be the best of the world.

2010-08-06T00:02:00.004-03:00

Hi my name is Luis Quiroz I'm 17 years old, I've been living in Argentina Since I have eight o ten year I don't remenber xP. I were born IN lima, Peru in 1993. Im a Taller person whit black hair and brown eyes I'm very funny but at the same time I'm a serious person :). I like play fotboll and boxeo I Love me :P jeje XD

2010-07-15T21:59:00.003-03:00

Hi,I have 17 years old, my name is Nicolás Pereyra and my friends call me Bimbo,I born on 4 december the 1992 in capital federal,I am studying in the last year of the institute corazón de jesús.
I'm tall and i have short hair and brown eyes.
My life is the martial arts, and in my free time I play football, one of my dreams is buy to a big mansion.

2010-07-15T00:12:00.001-03:00

Hello, my name is Lucia, 17 years old. I was born in October 7 in 1992.
I'm studying in the 5th year of the institute corazón de jesús.
In the future, i plans study, but i am between martillera publica and ceremonial
y protocolo and i would like to know paris (also i would like to meet justin timberlake♥ jaja)
My family is compound for parents and my sister. Also, i live with them.
I'm tall, with long dark hair and brown eyes.

2010-07-15T00:10:00.002-03:00

Hello, my name is Priscilla Puerta Ferrazzano and my friends call me Pri. I have a 17 years old, i was born on March 28, 1993 in Capital Federal. I'm tall and I have light brown long hair and honey eyes. In my free time I like hanging out with friends and my boyfriend. I love to dance, now learn salsa and reggaeton and other styles. I go to the gym and play volleyball. I go to the heart of jesus school in 5th year. The next year I plan to study nutrition.

2010-07-14T22:01:00.002-03:00

Hello, my name is brian, I am 18 years old. I am from Argentina, Buenos Aires, the Federal Capital.
I am not very high, I am thin, have brown dark eyes, I have chestnut hair and usually I use it short. I live with my mom and my sister.
I like the green colour and black too. I like to enjoy the life, the animals, to listen to music and I work in the church. I love going out with friends, play Football and going to dancing.
I am the River Plate Club team. I am a responsible, funny, a reliable person, and very disordered. I would like to continue studying medicine in the UBA.

2010-07-14T20:29:00.003-03:00

Hello, my name is Nahuel Orosco and I’m seventeen years old. I’m from Argentina, Buenos Aires. I have brown eyes, shot brown hair,I’m thin and I measure 1.80 :) I’m kidding I measure 1.65. I’m studying my last year at “Instituto Corazón de Jesús” and this year we will travel to Bariloche.
I’m a cheerful boy, friendly, talkative, jealous and responsible. I love play music, sleep and technological things, like cellphones, computers, games.. I like going out with my friends and going to the cinema with Mar.The next year I’m going to study Business Administration at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE). When I grow up I would like to travel, have a nice family with dogs and be happy.

2010-07-14T19:50:00.005-03:00

Hello, my name is Irma but my friends call me Irmi. I have 17 years old and I was born on 18th December, 1992 in Capital Federal. I grew up in Balvanera. I'm tall, I have brown eyes, I have brown hair and I'm a River Plate fan. I live with my mom. I go to Corazón de Jesùs Institute and I'm in 5th year. Next year I'll go to work and study. I love music because it makes me happy and I enjoy it so much. I play volleyball and I love it. In a few years I'll have my own house and I'll have four children.

2010-07-14T19:06:00.007-03:00

Hello, my name is Mariana. I'm 17 and was born in March 23, 1933 in Capital Federal. I'm tall, I have dark hair, brown eyes, and I have the habit of laughing all the time. I'm nice and fun. I live with my mom. I go to school Corazón de Jesús and I am in 5th year. Next year I will go to the University and I will study Marketing but still don't know the university, if UCES or USAL.
One of the things I love is photography and it's something I love it with all my heart, and I find it very exciting. I'm very organized and orderly. I love sports are swimming and volleyball. I love listen to music. In a few years I will have my house, travel of the world and i will have two children.

In the photo I was in Merlo, San Luis, on holidays in the summer. Bye :)

2010-07-14T17:34:00.001-03:00

Hi! My name is Gonzalo Mendez, but i say Rulo. I have 17 years and was born on May 30, 1993. I have the short hair brown my eyes, i am high and tall. I crie in Lanus, but years later i came to live in Federal Capital. I love playing football, practically is my life,but i break the fémur and i can’t play for a time. I like listen to music, going out with friends, goin to dance, play to play-station and wach at the t.v. am funny, very jealous, good friend, disorderly and i am a little crazy. Live with my mother I’am the Lanus club team. After the secondary am going to study kinesiologia , at the UBA or physical education, at the CENAR.

2010-07-14T14:24:00.004-03:00

Hello! My name is María Victoria Rojas. I’m argentinian, i was born in cap.fed on 14 th october 1992. I have brown hair and brown eyes and my measure is 1.60. I’m a sociable girl, I try to be a good person and help others. I’m a responsable person with my homeworks and i hate the disorder. I’m going to corazon de jesus school, i’m in the 5th year, in my spare time I go to the gim and I learn english. I live with my parents, mi brother, a cat and my handsome nephew. I’m a river plate fan and i love rock ‘n roll I love going to the stadium and recitals to see my favourites bands. I love my family and my friends, i love share and spend time with them. I enjoy buying clothes for myself, i like cars and i’m learning how to drive, I like color green and animals, specialy dogs but I got cockroach phobia. The next year i will go to university of salvador, i will study Psychology and pedagogy because I like help and listened to children. My dream will be buy me a house, a car, make a family , have children and be happy.

About me - Josué Ghiso.

2010-07-13T23:59:00.010-03:00

Hi! my name is Josué Ghiso, and I have a lot of things to tell about me.
I am from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was born on 24 August 1992.
I'm 17 years old and I am studying at the Instituto Corazón de Jesús. I am in my last year at High School, so next year I'm going to study a career called Ciencias de la Comunicación, at the UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires).
I have brown eyes and short dark hair. I'm neither tall nor short, but actually I really like being like this.
My favorite color is black (in fact, I ususally wear black clothes).
I've practised swimming since I was a child (I really like it!).
I am quite extrovert and funny. I think that I am a responsible guy - I mean, I don't need someone to control me with my homework or whatever.
I don't have any brothers and sisters, but I'd like to have a older brother, so I would have somebody to bother all the time.
I love going out with my friends and spend time with them.
I live with my mother.
I have also a negative thing: I am too honest, and I can really hurt people when I'm discussing.
Well, I think I've said enough about me, so I hope you to like my description.

The girl in the picture is my best friend, Sofía! (she's a very nice girl and I know her since I was six!).

2010-07-13T16:22:00.004-03:00

Hello, my name is Yamila Deamigo .

I'm Argentinian. I was born in July 1992.

I'm 18 years old and I'm studying at the Instituto Corazón de Jesús.

I am a tall girl, I have long brown hair, green eyes, I am a very friendly girl, good, orderly, responsible, sweet ,shy, gentle, fun, reliable and loving. I love the kids, listening to music, dancing, go out with friends, playing volleyball, going to movies, watch TV , I enjoy buying clothes, go to the gym ,and enjoy life. I'm neither tall nor short. I try to be a good person and help my friends.

I live with my parents , my brother and my dog.

I like the color pink and animals. I'm a Racing fan. I love going to the stadium, theater and concerts. I would like to study psychology.

Describing people, places and things.

2010-07-08T14:32:00.001-03:00

1. 'Read all about it!' It is a game where you'll use adjectives to make more interesting sentences.

Are you ready to play? Click here and start!

2. When you want to describe people, places or things you need to use adjectives. These are words like 'brown', 'long' and 'curly'.

Do you think you're ready for the adjectives quiz? You will find it here (try the three levels).

3. After doing exercises 1 and 2, post your own personal advert for a dating agency. You can upload your photograph.

Use the adjectives you have learnt.

Phobias

2010-07-05T20:44:00.001-03:00

Do you suffer from phobias?
If so, what's your biggest one?
If you don't, have you ever met a person who had a phobia?

Listen to these people:

make a list of their phobias
comment about it

TENSES

2010-06-28T08:50:00.000-03:00

Do you find tenses tricky? Can you tell if a sentence is in the present or past tense?

Have a go at this three level 'tenses' quiz to find out!http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/tenses/getting_the_right_tense/quiz.shtml

TIP! Make sure you answer every question. Don't be afraid - just have a go!

If you'd like to know more about tenses first, try the factsheets.

The game where you can win points by getting your tenses right!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/tenses/getting_the_right_tense/game.shtml

MODAL AUXILIARIES

2010-06-28T08:47:00.001-03:00

SHALL/SHOULD/WOULD. . .?

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/modal_quiz.htm

Father's Day

2010-06-19T10:56:00.004-03:00

As all of you know, tomorrow we're celebrating Father's Day.

I'd like you to watch the following video and enumerate the steps to make a Father's Day Memory Album.

If it's too difficult for you to understand it just by listening, you can also read it by clicking on the green arrow on the right.

No excuses then . . . Start working. Who knows, you might also make an album for your father, too!

Deadline: Wednesday 23rd

How To Make a Father's Day Memory Album on Howcast

World Cup Anthem

2010-06-17T14:34:00.001-03:00

How about singing the World Cup Anthem while you watch Argentina win.

Holy Joachina de Vedruna's

2010-06-10T23:21:00.002-03:00

View more presentations from Yami.

By; Aguilera, Deamigo, Ferreyra and Rojas :)

wanted.

2010-06-10T20:20:00.003-03:00

I am wanted because I stole on June 1st, an important bank in the U.S. I did it because I needed money to pay the rent of my house, and if I didn't do it, I would pass the rest of my life in the streets. I think it's too late to apologize for the crime, because I know that the people that was working there were very scared, but I really needed the money. I want you to know that I would do it again!

2010-06-09T00:44:00.005-03:00

Nicolas Pereyra is looked for the murder of a man called Tony. Nicolás Pereyra is 17 years old and is a Tae Kwon Do master. He has a Kung Fu life. The police's searching this person alive because he posses confidential information . He is an attractive young person but he's very bad.

Wanted For Murder

2010-06-08T22:51:00.001-03:00

The defendant Alan Maldonado is looked By the murder and disappearance of the gentleman Roger Federer. Alan maldonado, 17-year-old tennis player, was the last one in entering to the residence of the gentleman Federer. After knowing of his disappearance, some hypotheses hold that the body was murdered by the track of blood in the floor of the room. The family of this one went to realize the denunciation to the department of Police investigation of the city of London. There aren't known the whereabouts of both persons.

2010-06-08T22:23:00.001-03:00

Brian Fidalgo 17-year-old student, is looked for fire had lit the college New Center Of Estudy Located in Ayacucho and Current. The alunmo was seen by last time going out of the college after this one having initiated the ununtilled one. Nothing is known of his whereabouts, The this city police realizing an International search to meet on the student. The firemen still did not identify the reason of the fire. The bordering countries cooperate in the search of this 17-year-old student.

The MOst Wanted Of America

2010-06-08T21:50:00.002-03:00

The young person 16-year-old Luis Quiroz is looked for being very attractive, one accuses of having broken several hearts of adolecentes of between 15 to 25 years. The families of these worried by the situation of his daughters realized denunciations in the new police department located in Palermo, demanding that this attractive young person must be stoped and be Imprisoned to stop the situation.

2010-06-08T20:54:00.000-03:00

We’re looking for a girl with green eyes, brown hair, short stature named Lucía Villán, from Argentina. It is said that such an ambitious girl murdered a prominent businessman in the U.S., on June 1st with whom he had an affair. This accident occurred after he kicked her out of the company where they both worked. This girl can also have information on some things which are also blamed her husband. After the assassination Villan took all their belongings and decided to leave North America. Since then we are looking for her with help of Argentina's federal police and the FBI, preferably alive

2010-06-08T20:25:00.000-03:00

The New York Police Departament (NYPD) and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) are looking for a man called Nahuel M. Orosco and his nickname is “El Porteño”. He has forty-two years old and he is very dangerous.
The last time that the people saw this person was in 1999 and he was living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Apparently he escaped to Río de Janeiro, Brazil and he hid in the Favela.
He is accused for murder, kidnapping, rape and drug smuggling from Bolivia to Argentina. If you have some information about this man please call to the next number: (55) 858-0099 or (011) 4444-8899, the person that help us will have a reward of U$S 100000. Thanks for your attention

2010-06-07T22:07:00.007-03:00

He's looked for because he robbed in a local of the Alto Palermo Shopping. He tried to stole some money from the cash machine when the police arrived and started a dangerous secuence. The thief really scared the people who were in the place. Later, afte a few minutes, Gonzalo Mendez (this is the name of this man, finally ran away with the money.
Now the police of Argentina are looking for him. Please if you see him, just make a call to us.

WANTED -

2010-06-07T22:01:00.003-03:00

They looking me for stealing a closet that have clothes that can change your personality. You can get any garment you want, trousers, shirts, t-shirt, accessories, jackets, sweaters, etc.. Especially, shoes and handbags. In addition, we can created perfumes only with the mentality. This closet is very to covet by all women. That is reason why I'm in serious risk, because all of them want to steal these thing from me. I’m the only one who knows where to find that closet. This is the reason why you need me alive and not dead. Men have tried to steal me this closet but haven’t been able yet, but I must hide from frantic woman that are purely materialistic and is a job very tired. That’s why hid in safe place the closet so the world isn’t yet ready to wear this… so in the meantime, I’ll wear them ;)

I listened that my captured is of $5000 but it exists the most biggest problem.. Nobody never going to me capture !

WANTED

2010-06-07T21:45:00.004-03:00

We are looking for a girl called Yamila Deamigo from Argentina, who has stolen jewelry in the most important city in Europe. That was on May 31st.She has stolen rings, bracelets and gold watches. If you know something about her, please don't hesitate to contact us. The telephone is the following: 000-800 / 4256-8569.
Yamila has also been accused on Monday of the Alleged Theft of More Than 150 million credit and debit card numbers, as U.S. Officials believe is the largest case of identity.
Last week, she stole a DNI and she could do this in name of that person. She bought a car and a house with that identity

Who ever helps us will have a reward of $ 5000. We thank you very much for your attention.

MOST WANTED.

2010-06-07T21:33:00.005-03:00

Josué Ghiso (born August 24, 1886) is an Argentine teenage criminal. He was found guilty of conspirancy to commit three murders in his own house. Ghiso and the other killer invited the victims to his home just to have dinner, and when had finished and his friends were leaving, Ghiso took a knife and killed them one by one. Ghiso is associated with "Mente Enferma", an Argentine rock band. This connection with rock music linked him, from the beginning of his notoriety, with pop culture, in which he became an emblem of insanity, violence, and the macabre. After Ghiso was charged with the crimes, he confessed that he was listening to this kind of music at the time of the crimes. He said that he had loved rock music since he was little, and it was his muse. Ghiso's death sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment when a 1998 decision of the Supreme Court of Argentina eliminated the state's death penalty. Ghiso was an unemployed ex-convict who had spent half of his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offences. In the period before the murders, he was on the distant fringe of the Argentina music industry.
Argentina's eventual reestablishment of capital punishment did not affect Ghiso, who is an inmate at Corcoran State Prison.
Nowdays, Josué Ghiso is wanted death or alive.

Wanted for murder

2010-06-07T20:20:00.008-03:00

Wanted because she killed her husband by infidelity whith her best friend. He was killed while sleeping at night. She hit a shot in the head, then quartered and buried in the garden and went home that night. She knew of infidelity through text messages in the mobile phone of her husband and they were secretly and then decided kill him. She run away from home and wrote a letter for her friend threatening death. His whereabouts unknown. Was last seen in the vicinity of Bariloche. She was dressed in a jean pants, a pink short, a black jacket, a black sneakers and a blonde wig. May be that is hidden at the home of a relative. May be armed and is considered a dangerous person. Willing to give any information contact the police immediately please because it would be very useful for us and you will receive a reward of U$S10.000.Thank you very much

2010-06-07T17:39:00.002-03:00

Here's 2nd year studying with the teacher of English,Marina Alfonso . Also we see their works about "Inmigrations" . Very beautiful and interesting his works.

Yamila Deamigo , Nahuel Orosco , Brian Fidalgo and Victoria Rojas.

How to post powerpoint presentations

2010-06-04T09:15:00.002-03:00

You can do it by uploading them in this site: http://www.slideshare.net/

They will give you an ebbeding code to publish it in the blog.

You can try it!

3rd year's Bicentennial Work!

2010-06-03T19:43:00.008-03:00

Here's 3rd year studying with the teacher of Language and Literature, Adriana Tessio. Also we see their works about English artists and singers.

By Álvarez Irma, Álvarez Luis, Aguilera Lucía, Villán Lucía & Ferreyra Mariana :)!

Saint Joaquina's Ceremony

2010-06-02T23:50:00.006-03:00

We had a wonderful Saint Joachina's Celebration. Here are some photographs taken by Josue during the mass. It was full of love and expressions of happiness; everyone collaborated in one way or another.

Here is 5th year's chorus. Great performance!

Students from primary and secondary school cellebrated and prayed together.

Students from our primary school made this colourful and expressive poster. Congratulations!

Writing: Wanted

2010-06-02T21:12:00.003-03:00

I just read the following activity in Nik's Peachey's blog and thougt it might be interesting to work with it.

You'll have to create a "Wanted" poster with a photo of yours. You can improve your digital pictures and drawings with this collection of easy to use photo effects at this site.

It's really easy to use, you just upload a photograph and then write in your own caption. You can then download and print the images or add them to blogs or web pages.

Here's mine:

Just choose "wanted posters", create yours and download it into your computer.
After that, publish it in this blog and write a fictional story saying why you're being wanted (150 to 200 words)

Inmigracion Argentina

2010-05-31T23:49:00.001-03:00

The migrations to the current territory of the Argentina began several milleniums B.C., with the arrival of the cultures of Asian origin that entered to the American continent for Beringia, according to the most accepted theories, and were populating slowly the American continent. At the arrival of the Spanish, the inhabitants of the current Argentine territory were representing hundreds of thousands of persons belonging to numerous civilizations, cultures, cities and different tribes.

On this substratum, the Argentine territory has experienced different migratory currents:
he Hispanic settling between the XVIth and XVIIIth century, for the most part masculine, that assimilated with the native ones in a process of miscegenation. Not the whole current territory was colonized really by the Spanish. The region chaqueña, the Patagonia, the territory of the current province of The Pampas and of most of the current provinces of Buenos Aires, San Luis and Mendoza were kept under indigenous domain Mapuche, ranqueles, wichis and other peoples until they were conquered by the Argentine State, after the independence.
* The persons' forced introduction of black skin taken of Africa to be employed as slaves at the colony between the XVIIth and XIXth century.
* The European immigration promoted by the Constitution Argentina of 1853 under the base of the rule alberdiano, of governing is to populate, destined to generate a social rural fabric and to finish the occupation of the territories obtained by means of the military campaign against the Mapuche and ranqueles named conquest of the desert.
* The urban, principally European immigration and in minor measure of Middle East, produced during ends of the 19th century and the first half of the XXth.
* The immigration of neighboring countries, more or less it continues throughout the XIXth and XXth century. This type of immigration that goes back to the first civilizations agroalfareras appeared in Argentine territory , unlike the European immigration was considered to be always a problem for not being included in the one that it must be promoted in fulfillment of the Constitution.
* The new migratory currents from the years ' 80 and ' 90 from ones Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Colombia, Central America, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Immigration to Argentina.

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Immigration in Argentina, can be divided in several major stages:

Spanish colonization starting in the 16th century, integrating the indigenous inhabitants (see Population history of American indigenous peoples).
European immigration in the 19th century, focused on colonization and sponsored by the government (sometimes on lands "freed" of the native inhabitants by the Conquest of the Desert in the last quarter of the century).
The forced introduction of blacks brought from Africa to work as slaves in the colony between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Mostly urban immigration during the era of rapid growth in the late 19th century (from 1880 onwards) and the first half of the 20th century, before and after World War I and also after the Spanish Civil War.
Economic migrants from Korea, China, Central America, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Colombia and from Eastern Europe in the late 20th century and early 21st century.

Since its unification as a country and before, Argentine rulers intended the country to welcome productive immigration, albeit selectively. Article 25 of the 1853 Constitution reads:

The Federal Government will encourage European immigration, and it will not restrict, limit or burden with any taxes the entrance into Argentine territory of foreigners who come with the goal of working the land, improving the industries and teach the sciences and the arts.

The Preamble of the Constitution, more generously, dictates a number of goals (justice, peace, defense, welfare and liberty) that apply "to all men in the world who wish to dwell on Argentine soil". The Constitution incorporates, along with other influences, the thought of Juan Bautista Alberdi, who expressed his opinion on the matter in succinct terms: "to rule is to populate".

The legal and organizational precedents of today's National Migrations Office (Dirección Nacional de Migraciones) can be found in 1825, when Rivadavia created an Immigration Commission. After the Commission was dissolved, the government of Rosas continued to allow immigration. Urquiza, under whose sponsorship the Constitution was drawn, encouraged the establishment of agricultural colonies in the Littoral (western Mesopotamia and north-eastern Pampas).

The first law dealing with immigration policies was Law 817 of Immigration and Colonization, of 1876. The General Immigration Office was created in 1898, together with the Hotel de Inmigrantes (Immigrants' Hotel), in Buenos Aires.

The liberal rulers of the late 19th century saw immigration as the possibility of bringing people from supposedly more civilized, enlightened countries into a sparsely populated land, thus diminishing the influence of aboriginal elements and turning Argentina into a modern society with a dynamic economy. However, immigrants did not only bring their knowledge and skills. In 1902, a Law of Residence (Ley de Residencia) was passed, mandating the expulsion of foreigners who "compromise national security or disturb public order", and in 1910 a Law of Social Defense (Ley de Defensa Social) explicitly named ideologies deemed to have such effects. These laws were a reaction by the ruling elite against imported ideas such as labor unionism, anarchism and other forms of popular organization.

The modern National Migrations Office was created by decree on February 4, 1949 under the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency, in order to deal with the new post-war immigration scenario. New regulations were added to the Office by Law 22439 of 1981 and a decree of 1994.

By Priscila Puerta, Manuel Buceta, Nicolás Pereyra and Josué Ghiso.

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History of Recent Immigration

After the profit of his independence of Spain in the early 19th century, Argentina an opened immigration adopted immigrants of politics and encouraged to embrace the country as his own one. During a short period at the end of the year 1880, the government managed to subsidize immigrant steps of ship. It thinks that the country received more than seven million immigrants, predominantly of Spain and Italy, between 1870 and 1930.
The European migration began Argentina to diminish in the year 1930 during the global economic depression, beginning behind lightly before again the decrease in the year 1950 as the economic and political situation in Europe improved after the Second World War. Clear rates of migration in Argentina remained relatively strong until the year 1980, nevertheless, for flows increased of neighboring countries with less robust economies such as Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Chile (the Table looked at 1), whose inhabitants of the country looked for the employment and the highest wages. Due to the intense urbanization of rural urban internal flows of migration, many of these the migratory species of cone of the south filled the rural demand of work in Argentina. The politics of immigration of Argentina gradually did the most restrictive beginning to itself in the year 1930, and gained the force in the year 1950 due to unstable economic conditions and a series of military dictatorships. These suffocating economic and political conditions they gave place to the first exit of significant emigration of Argentina of native citizens, especially of the extremely expert one, at the end of the year 1960 and the year 1970.
Approximately 185,000 Argentina emigrated between 1960 and 1970, and the number raised to approximately 200,000 in the decade that they followed. The primary destinations of them the extremely expert ones included the United States and Spain, though other countries of the Western Europe and Mexico and Venezuela were also destinations. The low point for the clear migration coincided with the most recent military dictatorship (1976-1983), during which more than 300,000 persons are estimated - predominantly the intellectual ones, students, and minorities - "disappeared". Though some emigrants were returning after the fall of the authoritarian regime in 1983, Argentina they remained many abroad and principally, were integrated to his host's companies.

By Aguilera Lucía, Álvarez Irma, Álvarez Luis, Ferreyra Mariana & Villán Lucía :)!

2010-05-29T21:32:00.004-03:00

Features of immigration
The majority of immigrants, since the 19th century, came from Europe, mostly from Italy and Spain. Also notable were Jewish immigrants escaping persecution. The total population of Argentina rose from 4 million in 1895 to 7.9 million in 1914, and to 15.8 million in 1947; during this time the country was settled by 1.5 million Spaniards and 1.4 million Italians, as well as Poles, Russians, French (more than 100,000 each), Germans and Austrians (also more than 100,000), Portuguese, Greek, Ukrainians, Yugoslavians, Czechs, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, Dutch, Scandinavians, and people from other European and Middle Eastern countries. Argentine immigration records includes those from Australia and North America (the USA).
Most immigrants arrived through the port of Buenos Aires and stayed in the capital or within Buenos Aires Province, as it still happens today. In 1895, immigrants accounted for 52% of the population in the Capital, and 31% in the province of Buenos Aires (some provinces of the littoral, such as Santa Fe, had about 40%, and the Patagonian provinces about 50%). In 1914, before World War I caused many European immigrants to return to their homeland in order to join the respective armies, the overall rate of foreign-born population reached its peak, almost 30%.
A significant number of immigrants settled in the countryside in the interior of the country, especially the littoral provinces, creating agricultural colonies. These included many Jews, fleeing pogroms in Europe and sponsored by Maurice de Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association; they were later termed "Jewish gauchos". The first such Jewish colony was Moïseville (now the village of Moisés Ville). Through most of the 20th century Argentina held one of the largest Jewish communities (near 500,000) after the USA, France, Israel and Russia, and by far the largest in Latin America (see History of the Jews in Argentina). The Welsh settlement of Argentina, whilst not as large as those from other countries, was nevertheless one of the largest in the planet, and had an important cultural influence on the Patagonian Chubut Province. Other nationalities have also settled in particular areas of the country, such as Irish in Formosa and the Mesopotamia region, the Ukrainians in Misiones where they constitute approximately 9% of the population.[2] Well-known and culturally strong are the German-speaking communities such as those of German-descendants themselves (both those from Germany itself, and those ethnic Germans from other parts of Europe, such as Volga Germans), Austrian, and Swiss ones. Strong German-descendant populations can be found in the Mesopotamia region (especially Entre Ríos and Misiones provinces), many neighborhoods in Buenos Aires city (such as Belgrano or Palermo), the Buenos Aires Province itself (strong German settlement in Coronel Suárez, Tornquist and other areas), Córdoba (the Oktoberfest celebration in Villa General Belgrano is specially famous) and all along the Patagonian region, including important cities such as San Carlos de Bariloche (an important tourist spot near the Andes mountain chain, which was especially influenced by German settlements).
Other nationalities, such as Spaniards, although having specific localities (e.g. the centre of Buenos Aires) are more uniformly present all around the country and form the general background of Argentine population today.

By Deamigo Yamila, Rojas Victoria,Fidalgo Brian and Orosco Nahuel

BICENTENNIAL DAY IN ARGENTINA

2010-05-26T20:31:00.001-03:00

Today is a very special day for Argentine people because Argentina celebrates 200 years of the May Revolution which opened the way to Independence.

http://www.en.argentina.ar/_en/culture/C1956-the-bicentennial-year-starts.php

Argentina celebrates this important date with a 4-day popular party along the widest Avenue in Buenos Aires City , Avenida 9 de Julio.

Click Here http://ar.especiales.yahoo.net/bicentenario-argentina/los-festejos-en-t\
odo-el-pais/ to see photos of the event.

Saint Joaquina's Day

2010-05-20T20:59:00.005-03:00

A celebration day for all of us. We thank for Joachina's life, which motivates us everyday.

Here is our principal's salutation. Thank you, Sandra.

Glogster posters

2010-05-18T22:52:00.007-03:00

With GLOGSTER, you can create online posters. You can upload photographs, sentences, images, animations, videos and music. It is also possible to create link buttons to other Glogs or to any other web site

Last year I made a poster with some of my blogs, a kind of e-portfolio. If you place the cursor on "Glogster" you will see the option to view the poster "full size".
When you click on an image, it will take you to the site.

Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80NISdsoouE

St Joachina

2010-05-18T22:03:00.009-03:00

Saint Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (Barcelona, Spain, April 16, 1783 – August 28, 1854) was a Spanish nun, founder of the Carmelite Sisters of the Charity. She was born from a noble family. In 1799, she married the lawyer and Vic's landowner Teodoro de Mas, with whom she had nine children. Her husband died in 1816 and she moved with her children to their estate in Vic. Here, she began her charitable activities with the sick and young women. Her spiritual director, the Capuchin Esteban de Olot, suggested she establish an apostolic congregation devoted to education and charity. The bishop of Vic, Pablo Jesús Corcuera, told her that the institute should be of Carmelite inspiration. The same bishop wrote the rule on February 6, 1826, and on February 26 she and other eight women professed their vows. Within the next few years, the Vedruna's Carmelites founded several houses in Catalonia. During the First Carlist War, she had to flee from Spain because she had founded a hospital in the Carlist town Berga, that was further occupied by the Liberals. She went to Roussillon, France, where she stayed from 1836 to 1842. The congregation was definitively approved in 1850. In spite of serious challenges posed by civil war and secular opposition, the institute she founded soon spread into Catalonia. Thereafter communities were established throughout Spain and Hispanic America. Eventually, she was forced to resign as superior of her order due to sickness; although she died during a cholera epidemic in Barcelona, she slowly succumbed to paralysis over the final four years of her life. By the time of her death in 1854 at the age of 71, Joaquina was known and admired for her high degree of prayer, deep trust in God and selfless charity. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1940 and was canonized in 1959. She is buried in the Carmelites of the Charity's mother-house in Vic.

By Priscila Puerta, Nicolás Pereyra, Manuel Buceta and Josué Ghiso.

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Saint Joaquina

She was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1773. His father, Don Lorenzo de Vedruna, was rich and high official of government. Her family was very Catholic.
At the age of sixteen, she got married with Don Teodoro de Mas in 1799, she had nine children and she was widowed in 1816.
She was very devoted to the Blessed. Trinidad, the Virgin Mary and gave the dissemination of her work and the care of the sick, prayer and mortification. He died a saintly in Barcelona 1854.

She was beatified on 12/04/1959 and canonized on 19/05/1940.

Her message

* That in our own condition of life we can and must sanctify ourselves.
* That we are always attentive to the Gentleman “that calls ".
* That the life of sacrifice is a brief way for the sky.
* That the prayer and the humility are necessary for to be saved.

Her prayer

Lord, you who have given rise in the Church Santa Joaquina Vedruna for Christian education of youth and the relief of the sick, let us know imitate his example and devote our lives to serve our brothers with love. Amen.

Alan Maldonado, Gonzalo Méndez, Luis Quiroz.

2010-05-18T21:22:00.004-03:00

JOACHIMA DE VEDRUNA DE MAS (1783-1854)

Joachima was born at Barcelona on April 16, 1783.. Her parents were Lawrence De Vedruna and Teresa Vidal.
Even from her childhood Joachima felt urged to offer to God even the smallest actions.
Asked by her mother how she managed to keep herself recollected for such a long time, she replied that everything spoke to her of God: the pins used for pillow lace reminded her of the thorns of the crown of the Crucified, Whom she wished to console by little sacrifices; the thread used for sewing recalled the ropes with which Jesus was bound to the pillar; the useless weeds of the gardens represented her own faults to be rooted out at their inception. At the age of nine she made her First Communion and at twelve she asked to consecrate herself to God among the cloistered Carmelite nuns of Barcelona;
but she was not accepted because she was too young.

She was barely sixteen years old when Theodore De Mas asked for her hand in marriage. He too had strongly felt the call to the religious life, but had found an obstacle in the will of his parents, because he was the firstborn and heir to a glorious name. Reassured by her confessor that this was the will of God, Joachima married Theodore on March 24, 1799. The perfect affinity of this couple made their home a kingdom of concord and of peace. Both began the day in church and finished it with the recitation of the Rosary, to which, in the course of the years, was united the silvery choir of nine children.
Joachima loved her children with all her heart; she corrected their faults with patience, she encouraged them in the practice of the virtues, and at every moment gave them the lesson of her example.

Her message

• that in our own state of life can and must sanctify.

• we are always attentive to the Lord "calling."

• that life is way short of sacrifice to heaven.

• that prayer and humility are necessary for salvation

Prayer
Lord God,
you gave St Joachina de Vedruna to your Church
for the Christian education of youth
and the care of the sick.
May we follow her example,
and lovingly devote our lives
to serving you in our brothers and sisters.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.
Foundation of the Carmelites in Madrid

Religious Community
This religious community of Carmelites of Charity was born with the College and the College according to the mission of realizing the educational charism Santa Joaquina de Vedruna instilled in her daughters, and these teachers.

Yamila deamigo, Brian Fidalgo, Nahuel Orosco and María Victoria Rojas

Saint Joachina -

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Saint Joachina

Born into an aristocratic family in Barcelona, Spain, Joachina was 12 when she expressed a desire to become a Carmelite nun. But her life took an altogether different turn at 16 with her marriage to a young lawyer, Theodore de Mas. Both deeply devout, they became secular Franciscans. During their 17 years of married life they raised eight children.
The normalcy of their family life was interrupted when Napoleon invaded Spain. Joachina had to flee with the children; Theodore, remaining behind, died. Though Joachima reexperienced a desire to enter a religious community, she attended to her duties as a mother. At the same time, the young widow led a life of austerity and chose to wear the habit of the Third Order of St. Francis as her ordinary dress. She spent much time in prayer and visiting the sick.
Four years later, with some of her children now married and younger ones under their care, Joachima confessed her desire to a priest to join a religious order. With his encouragement she established the Carmelite Sisters of Charity. In the midst of the fratricidal wars occurring at the time, Joachina was briefly imprisoned and, later, exiled to France for several years.
Sickness ultimately compelled her to resign as superior of her order. Over the next four years she slowly succumbed to paralysis, which caused her to die by inches. At her death in 1854 at the age of 71, Joachina was known and admired for her high degree of prayer, deep trust in God and selfless charity.

Prayer
Lord God,
you gave St Joachina de Vedruna to your Church
for the Christian education of youth
and the care of the sick.
May we follow her example,
and lovingly devote our lives
to serving you in our brothers and sisters.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.

By Aguilera Lucia; Álvarez Luis; Ferreyra Mariana and Villán Lucía :)

Present simple or present continuous?

2010-05-14T17:44:00.003-03:00

I know you are "working hard" to prepare wonderful presentations about Saint Joachina and our Bicentenary. Anyway, here are some sites to continue practising tenses:

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This is our draw! Let us know if you like it!
Our draw is happy, he's dancing and jumping :)

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Irma and Manuel

The bear pink

2010-05-13T20:34:00.004-03:00

http://roxik.com/pictaps/?pid=a2866808

It's dancing her favourite music.
It look like a little bear pink :)
It's teaching to other bears for dance as her.
Because this bear is the best to dancing.
It's with other bears.

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→ He's singing and dancing
→ He looks like Elvis Presley
→ In the animation there are a lots of elvis dancing like crazy
→ He's there because he was singing in a concert
→ He's with his imitators

By Nahuel Orosco and Ferreyra Mariana :) !

2010-05-12T22:52:00.000-03:00

Here's our animation Gonzi :) jaja

what he/she is doing
He's dancing :)
what he/she looks like
He looks like a player of Boca Juniors
what is going on in the animation
He's dancing because he did a goal before, and the rest of the people is jumping at the same
why he/she is there
Because he's playing futbol at the stadium
who he/she is with
He is with with fans of the team

Photo and video sharing sites

2010-05-09T21:07:00.006-03:00

In these sites you can upload photos and share them with others. Start using your imagination and decide how you can use material about St Joaquina that you already have!

http://www.picnik.com/app

http://www.rockyou.com/

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/blender/

http://www.photofilmstrip.org/1-1-Home.html PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures in just 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video.

http://photobucket.com/

http://dotsub.com/: Watch videos with subtitles in your language, upload your videos, create your own subtitles!

I invite you to publish videos and photos in your blogs!

Visit this site: http://www.slide.com/
Open an account by clicking on "register"
Start creating.You can choose different effects, colours and styles for your pictures and you can also add music.
Once it is ready, get the embedding code and post together with a description. (I've done one)
If at the moment of publishing your post, they show you an "alert" saying that there's an error, click on "Stop showing HTML errors for the body of this post" and click on publish the post again.

HAVE FUN!

I prepared this presentation from my last summer holidays. They're pictures from Los Reyunos, in San Rafael, Mendoza.
Los Reyunos is a dam on the Diamante river; the dam is used to generate hydroelectricity. This is done in a power station located below the level of the reservoir.
Los Reyunos Fishing and Nautical Club, along with private summer residences and a hotel, lies on the western shore of the reservoir and serves as a base for activities in the lake (such as windsurf, canoeing) and in the surrounding mountains (such as hiking).

The landscape is unbelievably beautiful and it invites you to relax!

Saint Joaquina

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You will find information about St Joaquina in the following sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquina_Vedruna_de_Mas

http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1410

http://www.carmelites.ie/saints/joachinadevedrunademas.htm

http://www.oksister.com/Saints/joaquina_vedruna_de_mas.htm

http://www.vedruna.org/archivos/222_212_4-Vedruna%20Dialogo%20y%20encuentro.pdf

http://carmelnet.org/biographies/Joaquina.pdf

Animation

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The following site lets you draw a person and then turns your drawing into a bunch of dancing people having a good time.

http://roxik.com/pictaps/

Activity to be done in pairs:

Follow these steps:

Go to the site
Draw a person
Get the embedding code and post the animation in your blog

Describe in writing:

what he/she is doing
what he/she looks like
what is going on in the animation
why he/she is there
who he/she is with

Here's mine, without description:

Blogger tutorial

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I'd like you to watch the following video that'll guide you to open a blog, publish a post, add images and edit those posts you've already published.

Watch it, but don't try to publish anything yet. If you have any questions, write them in "comments".

On Saturday, I will publish an activity to be done in pairs.

Uploading a video to the blog

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And here's another tutorial that'll teach you how to upload a video from your computer to your blog.

You'll also find instructions about how to add a video from YourTube to the blog.

Revision time

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IRREGULAR VERBS:
In the space provided, write the proper form of the irregular verb named in parentheses after the space. Either a simple past or a participle form of the verb will be required

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/cross/verbs.htm

SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION:
Put a text into sentences. When you finish, tell us how well you did it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/sentencebasics/whatisasentence/flash7.shtml

Song: Let me fall

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Watch this video and listen to this wonderful song.

Once you've watched the video, do the following activities:

First, try to fill in the blanks of the lyrics; print it and sing along.
Second, answer the questions below.

Let me fall

Let me ___________ , Let me _________
There's a ___________ when fear
And ___________ must collide

Someone I am Is waiting for ___________
The one I want
The one I will become
Will ___________ me

So let me fall
If I must fall I won't heed your ___________
I won't ___________ them

Let me fall If I fall
Though the phoenix may
Or may not ___________ I will ___________ so freely
Holding on to no one
You can hold me only
If you too will ___________
Away from all these
Useless fears and chains

Someone I am
Is waiting for my ___________
The one I want
The one I will become
Will ___________ me

So let me fall
If I must fall
I won't heed your ___________
I won't ___________

Let me fall If I fall
There's no reason
To miss this one ___________
This perfect moment
Just let me fall

What does this song and performance mean to you?
What can you associate its message with?
Who's speaking?
Who is the message for?

Here is some information about the singer: Joshua Winslow Groban (born February 27, 1981) is a Grammy-nominated American singer/songwriter known for his baritone voice. He has concentrated his career so far mostly in concert singing and recordings, although he has stated that he wishes to pursue musical theatre in the future.
Interesting, isn't it?

Are you a complainer?

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We sometimes speak about having a positive or negative attitude.

Find out how negative your attitude has gotten and what you should do about it.

Try HERE!!!

All Fools Day

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Here is some interesting information about All Fools Day, or April Fools Day in Britain.

Listen to the spokesman and share your answers in the comments section:

What's this day for?
How long has this day been celebrated?
When did one of the most famous tricks take place?
Where was it published?

Say if these statementes are true or false:

Panorama included a report about the problems facing spaghetti farmers in Switzerland.
Many people apparently accepted the documentary at face value.
The Panorama report was a spoof.
Since then, newspapers haven't published spoof stories again.

Vocabulary:

Here are some of the words expressed int the presentation:
mischief, at face value, urn

Do we have a similar celebration? If so, when is it?
Do you take part in it?
What anecdotes can you share with us?

Present Perfect vs Simple Past

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Let's go on practising the present perfect and the past simple tenses, shall we?

Go to the following link:http://real-english.com/reo/52/52-1.htm

There you will find short videos with different kinds of comprehension question. If you have a microphone, , you'll also be able to record yourself.

Try it, you'll surely enjoy it!

Don't forget to write about your experience in "comments".

Present Perfect vs. Simple Past

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Here are some pages where you can practise the tenses. Visit them and share your experience in comments.

For and since:

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/preint/a_grammar/file07/grammar07_a01/
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/preint/a_grammar/file07/grammar07_a02/

Present perfect vs. Past simple:

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/preint/a_grammar/file07/grammar07_b01/

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/preint/a_grammar/file07/grammar07_b02/

Welcome message

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Let's start playing. Try to solve the following puzzle and answer the questions below.

First, click on the arrow in order to be able to start playing.

After that, come back and answer the questions below, just by clicking on "comments"!!!

* What sport is the one in the puzzle?
* How dangerous do you think it is?
* Have you ever done it? If so, who with? Where did you do it? What did you feel?
* If not, would you like to do it? Why? Why not?

* Do you consider yourself a sporty person?

How to post a comment

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Follow these steps (if you need to see the images more clearly, just click on them):